ENGL 3550 Lecture : Lec.Mar. 4.docx
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Particularity read biographically for clues of her death. Very much read as a roman a clef. As esther struggles to survive in her environment, culture is radicalized. Ethnics presence that esther finds disturbing or threatening. Esther has trouble writing herself and constructing herself among all this. E. g. baby 4, 13, 22, 65-70, 94, 103, 180, 211, 233-34. E. g. the bell jar title, 195, 227, 250-51. I knew something was wrong with me that summer, because all i could think about was the rosenburgs and how stupid i"d been to buy all those uncomfortable, expensive clothes (2). Expressions in which a single work stands in the same grammatical relation to two or more other works, but with an obvious shift in its significance ; sometimes used for firmly comic effects . I could feel the little electric filaments clinging to my hot cheeks (73) Abrams, a glossary of literary term (1999), 272.
